Thursday, 1 March 2012

Waiting for RIM to Bring it

By now I'm sure you've seen all the cool demos coming from RIM at Mobile World Congress. But let's do a flashback to the new year where many a blog splashed headlines of a BlackBerry 10 unveil at MWC and Playbook 2.0 at CES in January. So CES has come and gone and the Playbook software update didn't come until mid February, and in all fairness, late as it was, did receive some good feedback. Now as far as the BB10 devices? Still a no show. With all the super impressive future concept demos I have to ask, is it all smoke and mirrors? Every year wireless industry professionals flock to MWC to showcase their top products however this year RIM has nothing to show. Analysts are predicting even more negative effects for RIM due to the launch of iPhone 5 ahead of RIM's first BlackBerry 10 handset due out in September.

We're seeing some kick ass innovation but they need to get this stuff to market!